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France rating still 'very stable', says Germany

"We got the news that our most important partner received a slight warning assessment. But the rating for France is still very stable," German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said after Moody's on Monday followed another big ratings agency in stripping France of its triple A sovereign rating.

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Two years on from the highly-controversial EU-Turkey deal, many thousands of refugees are still trapped on Greek islands. One of them offers an open invitation to EU leaders to see their inhospitable conditions at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.

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The controversy over the new EU Commission top civil servant is revealing of what is wrong with EU institutions and how they are blocked by national governments, says award-winning Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.